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Tupac’s mum sues over biopic
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 17 March 2009
The mother of the late but still pretty damn prolific Tupac Shakur is suing a production company over their claims she had entered into but now reneged on an agreement regarding the making of a biopic about her son.
Afeni Shakur claims that independent producers Morgan Creek concocted a contract regarding them making a Tupac biopic, then tried to force her into signing it, and subsequently sabotaged her efforts to do a deal with a rival movie firm. Her legal papers accuse the production company of “concocting a nonexistent ‘agreement’ and engaging in heavy-handed threats, coercion and intimidation”.
But Morgan Creek, who are filing their own litigation in relation to the dispute, claim that it was Shakur who originally approached them with the movie proposal, that her company provided a proposal that formed the basis of their agreement, but that now she was trying to back out of said agreement.
Shakur wants the courts to rule that the production firm’s agreement with her regarding the biopic is not valid.
